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She picked her own Middle-Eastern friends from the flock of ardent Egyptians that buzzed around her.
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She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck.
She picked up two more Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction ( 1987 ) and Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ).
She picked up the pace quickly, but was unable to shake off Gardner, who kept close until the finish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously.
She instilled in him a fondness for liberal thought ; it is probably during this period that Louis Philippe picked up his slightly Voltairean brand of Catholicism.
She picked Pelosi as her designated successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons ' contacts.
She was later picked up on shopping networks around the world, including The Shopping Channel ( Canada ) and Ideal World Shopping ( U. K .).
She is known to be short-tempered and have a gruff exterior, although she is shown to be polite, sensitive, and friendly until she is picked on by the other students.
She had to rely on self-administered chemotherapy using supplies from a daring July cargo drop, then was picked up in an equally dangerous mid-October landing.
She picked up a number of dog-like habits and found it difficult to master language.
She had picked up a rosary in New Orleans during the course of her many moves around the country and started to recite the canticles she had learned at her childhood church in Chicago.
She travelled to Florida with senior FÁS executives, department officials, and her husband, Brian Geoghegan, and was receiving more than € 100-a-day subsistence money from the taxpayer when FÁS picked up her hairdressing bill in a Florida hotel.
She attempted to pass herself off as Saati until Toeni and Hitoshi picked the real one ; like all programs except Saati, she had zero modesty while Saati had modesty to spare.
She was picked by Steven Spielberg to sing " God Bless America " in A. I., although the scene was edited out of the final version of the film.
She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.
She picked up Emmy nominations for her role as Mona Robinson, a liberated grandmother in Who's the Boss, and as Lois Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond.
She also filmed her own sitcom pilot for CBS, which was not picked up.
She could not have gotten away on her own, but the minstrel performer rushed on stage, picked up her chair, and carried her to safety.
She won gold medals in the shot put and discus throw ( despite having picked up a discus for the first time just a few weeks before the event ), and a bronze medal in the high jump.
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She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.
She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.
She sat down at the table, shaking her head.
She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.
She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.
She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
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She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.
She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.
She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.
She hopes that all will support the contestants from our own community by attending our Pageants and the State Pageant June 17 ; ;
She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.
She was finally at rest in truth, of her own proud free choice.
She smiled all the way to her wise, sad eyes, and drained her own.
She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.
She and her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, were one of the rare married couples to be titled, each in their own right.
She saw it her duty to compensate for the innumerable deficiencies of her strange husband through her own intelligence and strength of will.
She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.
She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.
She eventually went on to star in her own spin-off series, Daria.
The band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.
She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its " sexual harassment " of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.
She tells her daughters-in-law to return to their own mothers, and remarry.
She put her bag on the bed to claim it as her own ; it was assumed this was pre-arranged.
She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.
She and her surviving siblings — Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own literary fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of these imaginary kingdoms.
She had her own intellectual ambitions as a young woman, but they were blocked by social restrictions, because of her poverty, her being a woman and wife, and her Jewish ethnicity.
She tried applying the plein-air painting techniques used by the Impressionists to her own landscapes and portraiture, with little success.
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.
" She had little money and struggled to cope, as she had the well-being of her ladies-in-waiting to maintain as well as her own.
She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.
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